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have to travel far to find a garbage dump. Just use Eglinton Avenue between Keele and Glenhaven, they won‘t mind, it‘s there all the time. can be seen on this part of the street seven days of the week. Is there no a bylaw to cover this situation? If this practice is allowed to continue, Toronto and the other boroughs will not these stores every day? Sometimes it sits there for three or four days before pickâ€"up. Wednesday morning seems to be the only time that this area is reasonably clean of garâ€" bage. By Wednesday morning, about 6:30 a.m., when some stores open up, out comes the garbage in its little green bag.This also applies to the tenants who live above the stores for as they leave for work out comes the garbage in its little green bag or box or whatever. Garbage bags. Garbage pickâ€"up in this area is usually between 11:30 and 1:30 a.m. depending on conditions. ‘Why is it then that garbage can be seen piled in front of In the midst of the last strike of garbage collectors I commented on an article in your newspaper. I felt at that time that you were dealing the businessman a bad hand by inferring that they could have removed their garbage on Eglinton Avenue in front of their places of business to a dumping area. Well I guess I was wrong. Businessmen and the people living above the stores on Eglinton Avenue between Keele Street and Glenhaven street do not seem to give a damn about anyone or anything. The Editor: How about that Until August of this year the government of Ontario operated on the assumption that responsibility for prices on food as well as on other commodities, lies How about cleaning up Eglinton Avenue? The north side of Eglinton Avenue between Richardson and Glenhaven bhas approximately twenty stores. These stores for the most part have two or more apartments above them, yet there are only two parking meters on the whole block while on the south side of Eglinton there is parking only east of Kane Avenue. Our, resourceful businessmen and tenants above have not let that bother them one bit. No sir. They completely ignore the posted signs and park wherever and whenever they please. Bus stops are frequently blocked, rush When one travels along a residential street in York they are not subjected to such an unsightly view seven days a week. Why then should one have to put up with it on one of York‘s main streets three or four blocks from our muncipal building? Many people from outside of York, who have reason to visit our municipal offices, will travel along this section of Eglinton Avenue. I wonder what they must think of York residents? * want to call them people, not be forced to put their garbage in another area on their own property until a few hours before a pickâ€"up? statement Mayor Phil White just made? He considers that â€" the billboards constitute visual polution. Well what about garbage? Not only is it visual polution but it also stinks and this garbage is not placed high above the ground but it is enough, strewn all over the sidewalks of Eglinton Avenue. Can these people, if you The unbelievable part about all of this is that the majority of them get away with it. It leaves one to believe that in York there is a special law for property which has a store on it and this special law is passed onto the tenants, customers and visitors alike. I am sure that some of the businessmen are not guilty of the above menâ€" tioned, but because they are businessmen you would think they would care about the area in which they are operating in. On the southeast corner of Scott Road and Eglinton there is the remains of what used to be a fine building. Now. tattered, broken and bent, one wonders what happened. If this structure was on a residential street or borâ€" dered on the municipal offices,â€" would this be allowed? I don‘t think so. Why then must we made to put up with it? I‘m sure a more suitable piece of real Our furniture company, which has at least two locations on Eglinton, even has their large truck mount the curb and park on the sidewalk while the truck is being loaded or unloaded, even though there was a vacant parking meter right in front of the store. I might add that this is not the only business which does this but they have the largest hour traffic is blocked both in the morning and in the afternoon. Saturdays and Sundays, at times the whole north side is filled with parked cars and trucks. A person leaving a bus on the north side first has to tackle the problem of parked vehicles, then step daintly over piles of garâ€" bage. The debate prox;ided the gd;'-é;';xxx;;t";v'it}':v z; é:od opportunity to spell out its program in more convincing There is considerable scepticism (which I share) among the public and legislators that this is mostly talk. The prospect of a Conservative government regulating excess profits is a little difficult to credit. Mr. Clement told a food conference three weeks ago that he was considering the introduction of a Business Practices Act which would regulate some of the pricing and marketing procedures that food retailers are engaged in. He even suggested that he was going to examine the profit levels of the supermarkets, imâ€" plying that if he found them to be excessive, something would be done about it. with the federal government. But when the storm rudndallnoothyltorwnlptopoffiouinm:gundflm year, Ontario, in effect, accepted some responsibility . PmnlerDavisuldthathewugolngtocallinthe supermarket heads for an explanation of some of their pricing and marketing procedures and he publicly instructed John Clement, Minister of Consumer and Commercial Relations, to investigate food prices. Premier Davis still argues that the mni;: responâ€" sibility for prices lies with Ottawa, but belated activity of the province concedes that it has a role to play. Mr. Davis went one step further : he said that he was going to ask Ottawa to call a federalâ€"provincial conference to work out joint policies for coping with inflation. Until this point, the Ontario position was that they were willing to cooperate with Ottawa, but that they left the initiative wholly to the federal governâ€" ment. Now Ontario is pushing a bit. But the real question is: how much substance, how much effective action, is there in all the belated programs which our Consumer Minister is talking nlasik® about? Back in session The editor: As assistant membership convener of Club 132, Weston Senior Citizens, I want to make a statement in regard to the editorial write up of October 2. We had nothing whatsoever to do with this, in fact we opposed it, as we realized that many of our members are getting up in years, and would be unable to travel problems. because I am only looking at it from one side.Of course I have to estate could be built there. I am sure I do not have Eglinton Avenue needs a cleaning up says reader Ray Gauer. Not only is the street strewn with garbage, the sidewalks are broken and some of the buildings are tattered, broken and bent. Some of the merchants and residents think they have special laws that allow them to get away with littering the street with their refuse. Happy where we are largest garbage dump and parking lot combination in look at it because I live in this area and it‘s lousy. Unless the Borough of York On the question of energy, the interâ€"provincial warfare accelerated. Premier Lougheed of Alberta has increased royalties (which in itself is wholly defenâ€" sible, because the people of Alberta were getting a pittance for their resources), but the net effect is going to be to increase the price to Ontario consumers of oil and natural gas. What effect it will have on the export tax recently imposed by the federal government on the proportion of Canadian production that goes to the American market, is for the moment speculative. In any case, the provincial ministers of mines (most of whom having responsibility for energy) met in Victoria last week, and federal Energy Minister, Donald S. MacDonald, finally agreed to call a federalâ€" provincial conference to bring some order, and policy, out of the growing chaos in the energy field. has been introduced, and will undoubtedly be processed quickly. No doubt, we shall have the apâ€" pointment of a new minister made shortly. But among housing experts there are continuing doubts as to whether the advice of Eli Comay, in light of his recent disappointing Task Force Report, is going to make that much ditterence. specific on a program which the government itself acknowledges to be urgent. Ranging beyond food, there are two other areas which contribute sizably to the cost of livingâ€"housing and energy. The legislation for extablishing a Ministry of Energy detail, but they did not. In fact, both Mr. Clement and Agriculture and Food Minmersuwmdldlitflemorehnrdlmm:»f thelrapeodzumreeweehagotothebodconficenco, thereby bolstering suspicions that effective action is not imminent. Surely, by the time the legislature had opened, it should have been possible to be more The Times, Thursday, October 11, 1973â€"Page 7 down to such a place. We are a happy and contented groups where we are, and we appreciate and are very thankful to the mayor and counâ€" cilmen of the Borough of York for allow ing us to have the room at the Weston Municipal Building, 2000 Weston Road, for our social and entertainment gatherings. Ontario, our elected ofâ€" ficials better move their butts and remedy the situation. Ray Gauer 2515 Eglinton Avenue 5 Bellevue Crescent.